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http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-england-mark-carney-technology-jobs-market-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-12Mark Carney: 'Every technological revolution mercilessly destroys jobs well before the new ones emerge'http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-england-mark-carney-technology-jobs-market-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-12
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:55:15 -0500Oscar Williams-Grut
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5846cabddd08953b448b4aaf-1396/undefined" alt="Humanoid robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015." data-mce-source="REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo" data-mce-caption="Humanoid robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015." data-link="http://pictures.reuters.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&amp;VBID=2C0FCI4QOEV4B&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1440&amp;RH=716#/SearchResult&amp;VBID=2C0FCI4QOEV4B&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1440&amp;RH=716&amp;POPUPPN=8&amp;POPUPIID=2C0BF1FQVREX6"></p><p>LONDON — Bank of England Governor Mark Carney thinks the jobs market is experiencing "great disruption" due to technology, and believes governments and corporations have a duty to help people manage the change.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/speeches/2016/946.aspx">In a wide-ranging speech on the economy in Liverpool on Monday</a>, the governor said the world is "in the midst of a technological revolution that is once again changing the nature of work." He highlighted a past speech from the Bank of England's Andy Haldane in which he said 15 million British jobs could be automated over time.</p>
<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) believes we are in the midst of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution," with robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming economies around the world. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-davos-report-on-robots-replacing-human-jobs-2016-1">WEF estimates that 5 million jobs will be destroyed by these forced by 2020.</a> Research by Citi and Oxford University earlier this year <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/robots-will-steal-your-job-citi-ai-increase-unemployment-inequality-2016-2">estimated that 57% of jobs across the OECD are at risk of automation.</a></p>
<p>Technology optimists argue that developments like AI or robotics will create more jobs than they destroy — someone has to build the robots, train the AI, and there will be new jobs that we can't even image now.</p>
<p>However, Carney told the audience at Liverpool John Moores University: "The fundamental challenge is that, alongside its great benefits, every technological revolution mercilessly destroys jobs and livelihoods – and therefore identities – well before the new ones emerge.</p>
<p>"This was true of the eclipse of agriculture and cottage industry by the industrial revolution, the displacement of manufacturing by the service economy, and now the hollowing out of many of those middle-class services jobs through<br>machine learning and global sourcing."</p>
<p>Carney linked a growing "anxiety about the future" of work to a rejection of globalisation, free trade, and open societies. Others have made similar points: The CEO of Silicon Valley software company Zuora told Business Insider in a recent interview that <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/zuora-ceo-tien-tzuo-on-globalization-populism-trump-brexit-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-11">people are "lashing out" because jobs are being destroyed by new technologies.</a></p>
<p>Carney said: "The commitment to reskilling all workers must be continual." He said that "lifelong learning, ever-greening skills and cooperative training will become more important than ever" as technology evolves.</p>
<p>Speaking on a panel of global chief executives earlier this year, Stuart Gulliver, the CEO of HSBC, said that it's "unlikely that there will be the same number of jobs in today's skill set in five years time," and said that it is <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/bt-hsbc-gavin-patterson-stuart-gulliver-technology-changing-jobs-market-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-10">"our responsibility is to manage that transition."</a></p>
<p>However, Carney also flagged potential economic benefits from the rise of technology in Monday's speech. He said: "In an age where anyone can produce anything anywhere through 3-D printing, where anyone can broadcast their performance globally or sell to China whatever the size of their business, there is an opportunity for mass employment through mass creativity.</p>
<p>"Technology platforms such as taskrabbit, Alibaba, etsy, and Sama can help give smaller-scale producers and service providers a direct stake in global markets. Smaller scale firms can by-pass big corporates and engage in a form of artisanal globalisation; a revolution that could bring cottage industry full circle."</p>
<p>Carney's overall message was firmly downbeat, however. The governor said Britain is <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/bank-of-england-governor-mark-carney-britain-lost-decade-2016-12">in the midst of "the first lost decade since the 1860s" as a result of stagnant real wages and poor productivity growth.</a></p>
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Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:09:31 -0500Rob Price
<p>LONDON — Google-owned robot lab Boston Dynamics showed its latest prototype off on stage on Monday — but refused to address reports that the company is up for sale.</p>
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<p>Marc Raibert, CEO of Boston Dynamics, demoed the Spot Mini, a four-legged machine with a robotic arm mounted on its back. It was first announced back in June, but this appears to be the first time it was shown off in public.</p>
<p>The Spot Mini walked, ran, and hopped around the stage, before picking up a can of soda and handing it to Raibert. (It should be able to do this action automatically, but an employee was forced to step in after it was confused by the lights.) You can watch a video of it in action below.</p>
<p>Boston Dynamics has become famous for the viral videos it releases of its creations, walking around and performing tasks with often unnervingly animal-like fluency. The Spot Mini, the latest in a progressively smaller series of prototypes, has mannerisms remarkably similar to that of a dog.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/58459f75dd08953a448b4aa4-2400" alt="Boston Dynamics" data-mce-source="Rob Price/BI"></p>
<p>But in March 2016, the news broke<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/google-is-said-to-put-boston-dynamics-robotics-unit-up-for-sale"> that Google is looking to sell Boston Dynamics</a>, which it had acquired in 2013. The robotics lab has yet to launch a revenue-generating commercial product — and its videos have also provoked some alarm among people concerned about automation and the threat posed to humanity by robots and artificial intelligence, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-google-and-boston-dynamics-are-parting-ways-2016-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">irking some Googlers</a>.</p>
<p>It has been reported that Toyota is a likely buyer. But so far, Toyota, Boston Dynamics, and Google have all refused to comment.</p>
<p>Marc Raibert was asked on stage about the reports, but declined to discuss them. "I’ve heard that rumoured, but I don’t really have anything to offer about what the plans are," he said.</p>
<p>Separately, the exec said the robot’s lab’s focus was on getting costs down "from prototype-type costs to product-type costs,” and to “build up capability that’s applicable to a broad range of things."</p>
<p>In short: While Boston Dynamics’ robots are more impressive than ever, it still has a long way to go.</p>
<p>Here’s video of the Spot Mini in action at Disrupt:</p>
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<p>And here’s footage of Spot Mini that Boston Dynamics released back in June:</p>
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Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:55:03 -0500Oscar Williams-Grut
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/584563b2dd08953e448b48f2-2393/undefined" alt="Workers exchange spools of thread as a robot picks up thread made from recycled plastic bottles at the Repreve Bottle Processing Center, part of the Unifi textile company in Yadkinville, N.C., Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. America has lost more than 7 million factory jobs since manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. Yet American factory production, minus raw materials and some other costs, more than doubled over the same span to $1.91 trillion last year, according to the Commerce Department, which uses 2009 dollars to adjust for inflation. That&acirc;s a notch below the record set on the eve of the Great Recession in 2007. And it makes U.S. manufacturers No. 2 in the world behind China. ()" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Chuck Burton" data-mce-caption="Workers exchange spools of thread as a robot picks up thread made from recycled plastic bottles at the Repreve Bottle Processing Center, part of the Unifi textile company in Yadkinville, N.C., Friday, Oct. 21, 2016." data-link="https://www.paimages.co.uk/search-results/fluid/?q=china%20robot&amp;amber_border=1&amp;category=A,S,E&amp;fields_0=all&amp;fields_1=all&amp;green_border=1&amp;imagesonly=1&amp;orientation=both&amp;red_border=1&amp;words_0=all&amp;words_1=all" /></p><p>Analysts at global investment manager Bernstein believe the "age of industrialization is coming to an end," with robots set to destroy manufacturing jobs globally.</p>
<p>That may not sound seismic. After all, the industrial revolution happened hundreds of years ago and manufacturing jobs have been the minority of all jobs in the West for decades. But Bernstein is arguing that the nature of capitalism is undergoing a fundamental change.</p>
<p>Analysts Michael W. Parker and Alberto Moel argue that Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, the foundational textbooks of economics, is becoming redundant because of two trends: the rise of robotics and China's modernising economy.</p>
<p>Parker and Moel say Smith's book, published in 1776, "remained broadly relevant to capital allocation decisions globally" for the last 240 years but is fast becoming out of date. They say:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Smartphones and online-to-offline apps give unskilled workers options for making a living that do not involve setting foot in developing market factories. Automation is making manufacturing activity cheaper and less labor intensive. Income inequality in developing markets will rise when work means competing against other unionizing."</p>
<p>Bernstein's central argument is that manufacturing jobs are effectively disappearing globally, replaced by robots. China is leading the way but the trend is global and it means promises made by politicians like Donald Trump to bring overseas industries back to America are unlikely to benefit working people generally.</p>
<h2>'China is not getting rid of the work. It is just getting rid of the workers.'</h2>
<p>Parker and Moel's argument hinges on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, a key textbook for any economics course. To understand what they're saying you have to understand what Smith said.</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/584563b2dd08953e448b48f3-622/adamsmith.jpg" alt="Adam Smith" data-mce-source="Adam Smith Business School/Wikimedia Commons" data-mce-caption="A bust of Adam Smith." data-link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Smith.jpg" />Smith argued that: "If an individual, a company, or a country has an advantage in producing something, then that individual, company or country should specialize in producing that one thing, and trade for everything else," Parker and Moel summarise.</p>
<p>These forces of specialisation, combined with differing average wages globally, led to the industrialisation of Asia over the last 50 years as the production of more and more goods was outsourced to cheaper manufacturing bases. Where exactly depended on the stages of industrialisation and development. Bernstein says: "Low-cost manufacturing has bounced around (mainly) Asia for decades to take advantage of this deep pool of low-cost labor."</p>
<p>It was this "bouncing" around that helped drive economic development in emerging markets as different countries became specialists in producing everything from radios to t-shirts.</p>
<p>But that bounce of labour could be coming to an end. Bernstein says: "China is taking a different approach when it comes to how to deal with the mismatch between high-cost employees and low-cost manufacturing. Specifically, China is not getting rid of the work (or not all of it). It is just getting rid of the workers."</p>
<p>Parker and Moel point to this chart highlighting China's huge spending on robotics &mdash; around $3 billion annually:<img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/584563b2dd08953e448b48f4-623" alt="robotics" data-mce-source="Bernstein" /></p>
<p>This investment is already filtering into fewer manufacturing jobs. Foxconn, a key manufacturing partner for Apple, Google, Amazon, and the world's 10th largest employer, has <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/clsa-wef-and-citi-on-the-future-of-robots-and-ai-in-the-workforce-2016-6">already replaced 60,000 workers with robots.</a></p>
<p>But Bernstein has been tracking the Chinese jobs market for the last year through a vacancy listings website. It says vacancies and wages have shot up &mdash; by around 68% and 4.5% over the last year. On the surface, that would be a positive thing for China. But Parker and Moel say, "The more complex manufacturing tasks are being automated, and the workers are moving into the services sector" and not the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing jobs simply aren't being created any more because they are all being taken by China's burgeoning army of factory robots.</p>
<p>In turn, that means roles that would have been shipped overseas to cheaper markets are being done by robots, domestically. Bernstein say: "The ability of new emerging markets to grab these jobs and the export activity that comes with them will be eroded [and] ... will militate in favor of automation and staying in China."</p>
<p>That means other countries that once could have expected to add jobs that service the Chinese manufacturing sector will now never see those jobs &mdash; because they're being done by robots inside China.</p>
<h2>'The activity may come "home", but there are simply no jobs to steal'</h2>
<p>It's not just emerging markets that will feel the change. Bernstein believes the rise of robotics will hit America too.</p>
<p>President-elect Donald Trump has promised to on-shore many industries and bring back well-paid manufacturing jobs. But the economics simply aren't there, argue Bernstein.</p>
<p>If a company is forced to start making T-shirts in the US rather than, say, Bangladesh where the wage and other costs are cheaper, the company will look to cut costs to make it economically viable. Tariffs on competing imported goods would have to be huge to eliminate the benefit of both lower labour costs and increased automation going on abroad.</p>
<p>So what's the easiest way for a company to reduce costs? Invest in robotics and eliminate the need to pay wages.&nbsp;Automation is the easiest way to cut costs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Parker and Moel say:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"It is still possible to force the relocation of production through the introduction of tariffs and quotas. However, if the point of the exercise is to restore well-paying, middle-class jobs in manufacturing in the process, the result is going to disappoint. Any such effort today is likely to result in greater and greater degrees of automation. The activity may come 'home', but there are simply no jobs to steal. Mandating a physical task be carried out in a high-cost labor market in 2017 is simply going to increase the chances the task is automated."</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/583d7ef9dd08953c1a8b4a3f-1542/undefined" alt="Allan Hale of Little Rock, Ark., who is active duty with the U.S. Navy based at the submarine base in Groton, Conn., wears a " data-mce-source="AP Photo/Charles Krupa" data-mce-caption="Fitch says Trump's election and the surprise triumph of Brexit is likely to lead to 'economic nationalism.'" data-link="https://www.paimages.co.uk/search-results/fluid/?q=make%20america%20great%20again&amp;amber_border=1&amp;category=A,S,E&amp;fields_0=all&amp;fields_1=all&amp;green_border=1&amp;imagesonly=1&amp;orientation=both&amp;red_border=1&amp;words_0=all&amp;words_1=all" />Increased automation and robotics are already happening in the US. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/clsa-wef-and-citi-on-the-future-of-robots-and-ai-in-the-workforce-2016-6">Two of the world's ten largest employers globally &mdash; Walmart and the US Department of Defence &mdash; are using drones</a>, for warehouse delivery and surveillance respectively.</p>
<p>America has lost more than 7 million factory jobs since manufacturing employment peaked in 1979, the Associated Press reported. At the same time, factory production more than doubled over the same time to $1.91 trillion last year, according to the Commerce Department.</p>
<p>All of this suggests that "the widely-held belief that Adam Smith's 18th-century observation about specialization can be reversed," Bernstein say. In the new global economy, the winners will be those with the best robots who can serve all their domestic needs, not countries who can develop a marketable specialism.</p>
<h2>The Fourth Industrial Revolution</h2>
<p>Bernstein's analysis may seem alarmist. But is not a lone voice.</p>
<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted a "Fourth Industrial Revolution" at the start of this year as automation and robotics transform the global economy and the way we work.</p>
<p>It will likely be a painful change &mdash; <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-davos-report-on-robots-replacing-human-jobs-2016-1">WEF expects 5 million jobs to be destroyed by 2020 by the trends.</a> An in-depth study by Citi and Oxford University predicted that <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/robots-will-steal-your-job-citi-ai-increase-unemployment-inequality-2016-2">77% of all jobs in China are at risk of automation and 57% of all jobs across the OECD.</a></p>
<p>It's not simply manufacturing jobs either. IBM's artificially intelligent computer Watson is <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ibm-watson-medical-doctor">apparently better at diagnosing cancer than humans</a> and the Associated Press is trialling automated reporting of company results, pointed to the automation of middle-class jobs once seen as unassailable by technology. Lord Adair Turner, the former vice chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe and ex-head of the Britain's financial watchdog, told Business Insider he believes <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/lord-adair-turner-tech-capitalism-wages-inequality-precariat-2016-11">we could be "at a turning point in the nature of capitalism" driven by technology.</a></p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/581360a8dd089553578b456b-1368/deliveroo4.jpeg" alt="deliveroo" data-mce-source="PA Images" />The key question that has not yet been answered is whether this "Fourth Industrial Revolution" simply changes the jobs market or leads to fewer jobs.</p>
<p>Past industrial revolutions have destroyed jobs but also created better-paid roles: the horse and cart driver moved into the Ford factories to build cars. Bernstein's analysis of the Chinese jobs market is encouraging &mdash; more service sector jobs at higher pay.</p>
<p>But not everyone is so optimistic. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/robots-will-steal-your-job-citi-ai-increase-unemployment-inequality-2016-2">The Citi and Oxford study found that:</a> "Today&rsquo;s technology sectors have not provided the same opportunities, particularly for less educated workers, as the industries that preceded them." They predicted that "inequality between the 1 percent and the 99 percent may widen as workforce automation continues."</p>
<p><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/lord-adair-turner-tech-capitalism-wages-inequality-precariat-2016-11">Lord Turner echoed these findings</a>, telling BI: "There&rsquo;s a certain sort of equality of citizenship that requires that everybody does OK. I think that may breakdown. I think it may breakdown because of the fundamental nature of technology."</p>
<p>Economist Guy Standing coined the term "precariat" to refer to people in precarious, low-benefit, and low-paid employment, often driven by technology. Think of Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers.</p>
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<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/583ef0aeba6eb602688b5bce-800/undefined" alt="Hyundai exoskeleton" data-mce-source="Hyundai" data-link="http://blog.hyundai.co.kr/Group-Story/Co-efficient/Hyundai-Wearable-Robot.blg#.Vzn23RUrJEI"></p><p>The US Military is a few years away from releasing a robotic suit that can repel bullets, lift heavy objects, and provide lifesaving oxygen.</p>
<p>Known as the Tactical Light Operator Suit (Talos), the military has invested an estimated $80 million in the suit, according to <a href="http://www.defensetech.org/2014/04/29/congress-wants-more-control-of-special-ops-iron-man-suit/" target="_blank">Defense Tech</a>. The suit is designed to better protect soldiers when they're in the field and is slated for completion in 2018, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/06/politics/special-operations-iron-man-talos-suit/" target="_blank">CNN reported</a>.</p>
<p>The Talos military exoskeleton is just one example of the different abilities robotic suits can provide. Miguel Nicolelis, a neuroengineer at Duke, has <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/robot-suit-debuts-at-world-cup-2014-4" target="_blank">developed exoskeletons</a> enabling paraplegic people to walk again, though it's still in the research phase.</p>
<p>But the exoskeletons being developed by Nicolelis and the military are extreme examples of what robotic suits can do.</p>
<p>Hyundai is working on its <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hyundai-creates-iron-man-exoskeleton-photos-2016-5?utm_content=buffer85999&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer-ti/#the-exoskeleton-is-designed-to-increase-mobility-for-the-elderly-2" target="_blank">own version of an exoskeleton</a> that can allow someone to lift up to 110 pounds with ease and increase mobility for the elderly. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/panasonic-robotic-suits-provides-extra-strength-2016-3/#the-panasonic-assist-suit-will-reduce-up-to-33-pounds-of-lower-back-stress-when-lifting-heavy-objects-1" target="_blank">Panasonic</a> is also working on one that can reduce lower back stress for factory workers who constantly engage in heavy lifting.</p>
<p>Exoskeleton suits have a lot of potential, but they come with a hefty price tag. Although Hyundai hasn't disclosed the price of its suit, Panasonic has said its exoskeleton will cost roughly $8,000 when it rolls out.</p>
<p>But there's hope that exoskeletons could become more affordable for those looking to use them. The German Social Welfare court <a href="http://rewalk.com/german-social-court-ruling-deems-rewalk-exoskeleton-medically-necessary-as-medical-aid-for-recipient-with-spinal-cord-injury/" target="_blank">ruled</a> that the exoskeleton suits developed by ReWalk Robotics are medically necessary and should be covered by insurance in August.</p>
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Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:26:28 -0500Oscar Williams-Grut
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5832e804dd0895536d8b4dfd-810/tien tzuo ceo headshot.jpg" alt="Tien Tzuo Zuora" data-mce-source="Zuora/Marc Rettig" data-mce-caption="Tien Tzuo, the cofounder and CEO of Zuora." /></p><p>The CEO of a $1 billion (&pound;810 million) Silicon Valley software company believes the world is approaching a tech-driven employment crisis that already contributed to Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential election.</p>
<p>"Technology is changing the workforce &mdash; it's changing the employment market," Tien Tzuo, the cofounder and CEO of Zuora, told Business Insider during a recent interview in London.</p>
<p>The World Economic Forum believes the world is <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-davos-report-on-robots-replacing-human-jobs-2016-1">undergoing a fourth industrial revolution</a>, driven by the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence that automate more and more jobs. The WEF estimates that these trends will <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-davos-report-on-robots-replacing-human-jobs-2016-1">destroy 5 million jobs by 2020</a>.</p>
<p>Tzuo said: "There are less manufacturing jobs. You talk about the fourth industrial revolution &mdash; that's not letting up. It's going to obsolete more and more jobs at a faster and faster pace. The workforce is not able to keep up with it in terms of the locations, the skills, and all these other issues."</p>
<p>Some <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/robots-will-steal-your-job-citi-ai-increase-unemployment-inequality-2016-2">57% of all jobs in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's member countries are at risk of automation</a>, according to research by Citi and Oxford University. The research also found that, unlike previous major advances in technology, computing advances are actually destroying more jobs than they create.</p>
<blockquote class="pullquote">If we don&rsquo;t solve this, there's going to be a class of population that's going to hold us back from moving towards the future.</blockquote>
<p>"If we don't solve this," Tzuo said, "there's going to be a class of population that's going to hold us back from moving towards the future &mdash; rightfully so, because society needs to deal with their issues."</p>
<p>Tzuo isn't the only one raising alarm about what technology is doing to employment. Lord Adair Turner, the former vice chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe and the ex-head of Britain's financial watchdog, told Business Insider earlier this month that "<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/lord-adair-turner-tech-capitalism-wages-inequality-precariat-2016-11">we may be at a turning point in the nature of capitalism" because of "the fundamental nature of technology."</a></p>
<p>BT Group CEO Gavin Patterson has also warned of challenging changes in the global jobs market, telling a conference recently: "<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/bt-hsbc-gavin-patterson-stuart-gulliver-technology-changing-jobs-market-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-10">It's quite possible that 80% of the jobs that people do today won't exist in the future</a>."</p>
<p>Tzuo, who was an early employee of Salesforce before setting up Zuora, linked Trump's shock election victory in the US to the tech-driven labour-market trends.</p>
<p>"You're moving from a $50-an-hour manufacturing job because you're in a union to a $12-an-hour job at Walmart or Starbucks that's nonunion," Tzuo said. "It doesn't work! People are blaming trade and immigration as a result, but it's not that. Immigration is not taking away jobs. Trade in the US has actually shrunk over the last four or five years. When everything is a service, what is there to trade?"</p>
<p>On Trump voters, he said: "It's not that these guys are all racists and sexists &mdash; sure there's some fringe factor of that, but that's not the core issue. The core issue is they need a future. Without a future, they lash out in different ways."</p>
<p>But Tzuo added: "The trend towards globalisation is inevitable. There might be some ups and downs, one step forward, two steps back, but it's not like the pendulum is swinging permanently the other way. We've just got to work through some social issues."</p>
<p>"I think as a society we've got to figure out how do we create jobs for people and if there literally are going to be fewer jobs, then how can we establish a minimum wage or basic income for folks. How exactly you do that depends on the society, the rules."</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5832e804dd0895536d8b4dfe-910/zuora_subscribed2016_151116-8563.jpg" alt="Zuora Subscribed conference Tien Tzuo" data-mce-source="Zuora" data-mce-caption="Tien Tzuo speaking at Zuora's recent 'Subscribed' conference in London." />The California-based Zuora provides businesses with software designed to allow them to easily accept subscriptions. Founded in 2007, the company has grown in line with the rise of the so-called on-demand economy &mdash; services like Uber and Deliveroo &mdash; subscription services such as Netflix, and the cloud-computing industry, which typically sees businesses and people rent software hosted in the cloud rather than buy it.</p>
<p>Zuora processes about $35 billion (&pound;28.2 billion) worth of transactions for more than 800 customers around the world and employs 600 people globally. The company has raised over $240 million (&pound;193.7 million) in funding to date and was valued at over $1 billion (&pound;810 million) in its most recent funding round.</p>
<p>Tzuo told Business Insider that he did not think Trump's election would damage Silicon Valley's tech economy, despite the president-elect's promise to stand up for many of the people damaged by technology trends and his anti-immigrant rhetoric.</p>
<p>"I'm not going to go work for Google, chase my high-tech dreams, because of Trump?" Tzuo said. "That's not computing."</p>
<p>He was speaking with Business Insider at Zuora's Subscribed conference in London last week. Britain is a major international market for the company, which works with the likes of British Gas, the Financial Times, Brandwatch, and The Telegraph.</p>
<p>Tzuo said the Brexit "does create more headaches" for Zuora in the UK "but in the short term it doesn't change our strategy."</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/zuora-ceo-tien-tzuo-on-globalization-populism-trump-brexit-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-randall-stephenson-donald-trump-positive-development-industry-fcc-time-warner-ignition-merger-2016-12">AT&T CEO: Trump is a 'positive development' for our industry</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/eelume-swims-autonomously-perform-underwater-maintenance-humans-robot-2016-11This creepy robotic eel swims autonomously to perform underwater maintenance http://www.businessinsider.com/eelume-swims-autonomously-perform-underwater-maintenance-humans-robot-2016-11
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:15:40 -0500Leon Siciliano
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b2c21ec7-43ae-5611-beaa-5ac378836f4e"><span>This creepy robotic eel is the stuff of nightmares but it might be able to reduce costs for the oil and gas industry.<br></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr">It is called an <a href="http://eelume.com/">Eelume</a>&nbsp;and was developed by <a href="http://www.kongsberg.com/">Kongsberg Gruppen</a> and Statoil to inspect subsea vessels and installations.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><span>The robot is armed with a clamp-like mouth which can tighten valves or make simple repairs.</span></span></p>
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Wed, 02 Nov 2016 13:46:57 -0400Corey Protin
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<p>A group called <a href="http://www.ghostrobotics.io/" target="_blank">Ghost Robotics</a><span> have built an amazing robot called the </span><a href="http://www.ghostrobotics.io/minitaur/" target="_blank">Minitaur</a>. Not only can it climb fences, but it can even open doors. Here's how it all works. </p>
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Wed, 02 Nov 2016 07:02:20 -0400Oscar Williams-Grut
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5819c7d6dd08956c578b49f5-1308/gettyimages-74198750.jpg" alt="A horse is seen as celebrities helps to muck out stables during the final day of the German Dressage and Jumping Derby 2007 at Klein Flottbek Derby Park on May 20, 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. Proceeds of the Tchibo-sponsored event benefit the charity 'Power-Child'. (Photo by )" data-mce-source="Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Osborne told a story about Victorian London's problem with horse &amp;quotshit&amp;quot when asked about government's approach to technology." data-link="http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/74198750" /></p><p>Former Chancellor George Osborne thinks the government will be as good at protecting society from future technological developments as it was at solving Victorian London's "horse shit" problem &mdash; which means, not very.</p>
<p>Osborne appeared on a panel with "futurists," tech staff, and academics in London on Tuesday night titled "A glimpse into the future?," organised by early stage tech investors Force Over Mass. The panel discussed cutting edge technologies such as driverless cars, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, and what impact these developments might have on society.</p>
<p>One idea that came up was that advances in artificial intelligence could lead to a "post-work" world, where computers can do all of the jobs that humans do now. The World Economic Forum has already <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-davos-report-on-robots-replacing-human-jobs-2016-1">forecast that 5 million jobs could be eradicated by technology by 2020</a> and <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/robots-will-steal-your-job-citi-ai-increase-unemployment-inequality-2016-2">57% of all jobs across the OECD are at risk of automation</a>, according to research by Citi and Oxford University.</p>
<p>The question is how do we control the rise of technology. The danger is that automation and AI create more inequality by putting people out of work and simply concentrating greater and greater wealth in the hands of those who control the machines. The ideal "post-work" world is one where we all share the spoils from the machines and can spend more time doing what we love.</p>
<p>Asked how we reach the former not the later vision of the future, Google's Oliver Gaymond said on Tuesday night: "We've got a lot of hard work ahead of us to figure out how to make this transformation into a potentially post-work society... I would be very excited to see governments step up to that plate."</p>
<p>But Osborne, who was Chancellor until July, quickly rebuffed this suggestion, saying: "I'm a little bit sceptical of the ability of government to anticipate all this change and come up with a perfect plan &mdash; and that's not just because I'm out of the government.</p>
<p>"A classic example is in the late 19th century &mdash; there was a huge problem in this city with horse shit. There were more and more people using carriages and using horses as they got richer and there were endless parliamentary commissions about what to do about the problem.</p>
<p><img class="float_left float_right" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/577661e6dd089578548b4ce1-1529/pa-26735200.jpg" alt="Chancellor George Osborne speaks at The Times CEO summit in London." data-mce-source="Neil Hall / PA Wire/Press Association Images" data-mce-caption="Chancellor George Osborne." data-link="https://www.paimages.co.uk/image-details/2.26735200" />"Of course, what no one came up with was the idea that someone might invent a car, which solved the problem.</p>
<p>Osborne's point is that technology and society moves quicker than the pace of government, which is not geared up to innovate.</p>
<p>He said: "Equally, if you'd asked any government to come up with a self-driving car there is no way it would be about to be deployed on to the streets of Pittsburgh or anywhere else."</p>
<p>Even if government did move quicker, it would still struggle to legislate for technological changes because "the future is inherently unknowable and a bit random," Osborne says.</p>
<p>"I think a better thing for government to do is to respond to the private sector &mdash; companies like Google and the millions of little companies that now exist in the Google ecosystem &mdash; to respond to changes that are taking place and have clearly got momentum. For example, changes to employment, changes to tax law.</p>
<p>"Self-driving cars are not going to happen in this country unless we change the insurance laws. It's all very well building the things, they're not going to happen unless we change the insurance laws and, increasingly, the architecture of the streets.</p>
<p>"I think government can make changes that help society adjust to technological development as some of them will require taking on quite deep-seated assumptions about the way we organise our tax affairs and so on."</p>
<p>Osborne cautioned tech companies not to forget that people have a vote and can object to technological changes they do not like at the ballot box or through other means. He cited the recent <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/george-osborne-democracy-free-trade-open-society-threat-fight-values-2016-11">employment tribunal verdict against Uber as an example.</a></p>
<p>The MP for Tatten also argued that international coordination is needed on some issues, such as the drawing up of laws governing the internet.</p>
<p>Osborne says: "The laws of cyber have not yet been written internationally but there were international laws of the sea written in the 19th century as problems of piracy developed. Again, you could imagine the nations of the world, including Chinas and the like, sitting around the table and agreeing a basic protocol of how we go about using the internet."</p>
<p>The former Conservative Chancellor also warned during the panel discussion that he believes <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/george-osborne-democracy-free-trade-open-society-threat-fight-values-2016-11">"Western" values such as democracy, free trade, and open society are at risk of being "rolled back" and says people must "fight" to protect them.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/george-osbornes-victorian-horse-shit-metaphor-government-technology-2016-11#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-199-trillion-debt-china-japan-uk-hong-kong-ireland-cayman-islands-treasury-bonds-notes-politics-2016-12">The US is $19.9 trillion in debt — here are the countries we owe the most</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/the-enterprise-robotics-report-market-forecasts-growth-drivers-and-the-industries-leading-adoption-2016-7THE ENTERPRISE ROBOTICS REPORT: Market forecasts, growth drivers, and the industries leading adoptionhttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-enterprise-robotics-report-market-forecasts-growth-drivers-and-the-industries-leading-adoption-2016-7
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 05:03:00 -0400John Greenough
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5789127e4321f122008b8934-2356/estimated global enterprise robot shipments .png" alt="Estimated Global Enterprise Robot Shipments " data-mce-source="BI Intelligence" /></p><p>Businesses throughout the world are increasingly using robots to automate portions of their workflow.</p>
<p>Traditionally, robots have been used primarily&nbsp;in manufacturing. But other industries including healthcare, shipping and logistics, food services, retail, hospitality, and more are starting to also use robots. For example, hospitals are using robots to assist in surgery, retail stores are testing robots to take inventory, and warehouses are using robots help sort packages.</p>
<p>In this report, we examine the rising use of robots across many industries. We examine&nbsp;top use cases, market leaders, growth drivers, potential for workforce automation, the top barriers, and include market forecasts on shipments and investment in robots between 2015-2021.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:</em></p>
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<li>We expect enterprise robotic shipments to nearly triple between 2015-2021.</li>
<li>Manufacturing will continue to be the top&nbsp;adopter of robots. A recent Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey found 44% of US manufacturers and 66% of German manufacturers plan to install autonomous robots and assistance systems within the next five years.</li>
<li>Rising wages around the world is&nbsp;just one of the key reasons enterprises are beginning to leverage robotics.</li>
<li>Robots have the potential to displace jobs, meaning that while they might take some more labor intensive jobs they have the potential to create new jobs for working on robots.</li>
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<li>Forecasts enterprise robotic shipments</li>
<li>Identifies market leaders</li>
<li>Discusses economic conditions leading to the rise of robots</li>
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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:00:00 -0400Rob Ludacer
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<p>When software engineer Kurt Grandis wanted to free his bird feeder from the '<a href="http://www.techinsider.io/the-first-video-of-a-vampire-squirrel-caught-in-the-wild-2015-9">hoard of squirrels</a>' plaguing his backyard, he turned to his machine learning degree. By designing a program to watch for anything squirrel shaped, and installing a <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/how-to-get-a-flu-vaccine-without-a-needle-2015-10">water gun</a> on a rotating turret, he was able to create a machine that recognized squirrels and soaked them from afar. Watch how they reacted next in this short animation for Marketplace and Tech Insider's <a href="http://content.codebreaker.codes/3">Codebreaker</a> podcast. Then, listen to the <a href="http://content.codebreaker.codes/5">whole episode here</a> about decisive machines. </p>
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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 03:00:00 -0400Will Martin
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/58034ea1dd08952a3a8b4d50-1021/screen shot 2016-10-16 at 10.44.59.png" alt="japan robot kengoro" data-mce-source="YouTube" /></p><p>The least educated people in the professional world are also the least concerned about the risk of technology taking their jobs, according to a new survey released by salary benchmarking site Emolument.</p>
<p>Emolument surveyed 900 people working across "several industries and countries" and found that those with no university education were least likely to think that technology is a risk to their job. Just 18% of people with no degree answered yes when asked: "<span>Is technology putting your job at risk?" </span></p>
<p><span>On the other hand, 40% of people with a masters degree in finance answered yes.</span></p>
<p><span>Here's Emolument's chart showing different answers by degree level:</span></p>
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<h2><span>While those with the least education may not be particularly worried about losing their jobs to robots, they should be. </span></h2>
<p><span>Recent research from&nbsp;<span>the University of Oxford's policy school, the Oxford Martin School&nbsp;</span></span>titled "Technology at work: V2.0," concluded that 35% of jobs in the UK are at risk of being replaced by automation, 47% of US jobs are at risk, and across the OECD as a whole an average of 57% of jobs are at risk. In China, the risk of automation is as high as 77%.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/robots-will-steal-your-job-citi-ai-increase-unemployment-inequality-2016-2">my colleague Oscar Williams-Grut&nbsp;wrote earlier in the year</a> "most of the jobs at risk are low-skilled service jobs like call centres or in manufacturing industries."</p>
<p><span>Another report released at 2016's <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-davos-report-on-robots-replacing-human-jobs-2016-1">annual World Economic Forum conference argued that automation</a> "will lead to a&nbsp;net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major&nbsp;developed and emerging economies&nbsp;by 2020," also saying that the majority of jobs will be lost by low skilled workers, generally with lower levels of education.</span></p>
<p><span>Along with looking at how people with different levels education perceive the threat of technology to their jobs, Emolument also looked at different job areas, finding that those in financial services &mdash; where computer programmes and algorithms are now doing much of the work &mdash; are most worried, while engineers are the least. </span></p>
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Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:57:23 -0400Leon Siciliano
<p>Love good food but hate cooking?</p>
<p>A UK startup may have invented the perfect solution for you, but it isn't cheap.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.moley.com/">Moley Robotics</a> has made a robot chef that mimics human movement.</p>
<p>The product is expected to go on sale in 2o17 and early estimations predict it could cost as much as £80,000.</p>
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<p>Easton LaChappelle created his first robotic arm at the age of fourteen. Four years later, he was approached by Tony Robbins and started a company called <a href="http://www.unlimitedtomorrow.com/">Unlimited Tomorrow</a> that focuses on building accessible technology, namely prosthetics. </p>
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Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:43:18 -0400Paul Szoldra
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/58000bd652dd731b008b4d7e-864/screen%20shot%202016-10-13%20at%203.32.58%20pm.png" alt="Nathan Copeland" data-mce-source="DARPA" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4BR4Iqfy7w"></p><p>DARPA just gave a paralyzed man back the sense of touch through the use of a brain implant.</p>
<p>It's a revolutionary breakthrough for the Pentagon's research and development shop, which hooked up a human subject named Nathan Copeland <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-10-13">to a robotic arm</a> controlled by a brain implant that could send information back and forth.</p>
<p>Copeland was paralyzed from the chest down after a 2004 car accident. Nearly ten years later, he volunteered for a clinical trial that provided him the feeling "as if his own hand were being touched," he reported.</p>
<p>In order to make that feeling happen, DARPA researchers from the University of Pittsburgh implanted four microelectrode arrays onto the areas of Copeland's brain that dealt with motor functions and the sense of feeling in the fingers and palm. Then they hooked wires up to a robotic arm and tested, which resulted in nearly 100 percent accuracy.</p>
<p>“At one point, instead of pressing one finger, the team decided to press two without telling him,” Dr. Justin Sanchez, the director of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office, said in a statement. “He responded in jest asking whether somebody was trying to play a trick on him. That is when we knew that the feelings he was perceiving through the robotic hand were near-natural.”</p>
<p>The latest advance is just one of many in DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, an initiative that started in 2006. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/johnny-metheny-prosthetic-2016-9">agency previously showed off</a> a super-powerful prosthetic arm that looks, feels, and acts just like a real human arm.</p>
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Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:36:00 -0400Rob Ludacer
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<p>One issue that marine researchers have struggled with is that their remote operating vehicles still can only <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-jersey-shore-phytoplankton-water-phenomenon-2016-7">manipulate the environment</a> they are studying with clamp-like instruments designed for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/baker-hughes-rig-count-september-16-2016-9">repairing oil rigs</a>. It took a team of marine researchers and Harvard robotics experts to design these smart replacements that can pick up <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/coral-bleaching-turning-bright-white-starvation-2016-5">coral</a> without damaging it.</p>
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Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:59:00 -0400Kim Renfro
<p><strong><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/57fd03d2dd0895eb338b46ce-1920/dolores abernathy and maeve westworld.png" alt="Dolores Abernathy and Maeve Westworld" data-mce-source="HBO" /></strong><strong>Warning: There are spoilers&nbsp;ahead for "Westworld."</strong></p>
<p><strong>The INSIDER Summary:</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>&bull; Hosts in "Westworld" are spreading an idea of consciousness.</strong><br /><strong>&bull; This idea of a "contagion" in artificial intelligence is nothing new.</strong><strong><br />&bull; We spoke to a robotics expert to learn more.</strong></p>
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<p><br />The second episode of "Westworld" made a significant leap when it came to explaining "glitches" in the robotic hosts' programming. One of the programming employees, Elsie, expressed concern to&nbsp;Bernard about Peter Abernathy (the host who went "crazy" in the premiere).</p>
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<p>"Let me at least pull the hosts who had contact with him," Elsie asks Bernard.&nbsp;"Like the daughter &mdash; Dolores. Because if this is not a dissonant episode, then whatever Abernathy had could be contagious. So to speak."</p>
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<p>Bernard denies the request, explaining that Dolores was examined and cleared. But in the scene immediately following this exchange, we watch as Dolores seems to "infect" another host with "consciousness" by repeating what might&nbsp;be a trigger phrase:&nbsp;"These violent delights have violent ends."&nbsp;</p>
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<p>The show's co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy attended a "Westworld" panel at New York Comic Con on October 9, and they were asked directly about this phrase and it's significance in the second episode.</p>
<p>"This episode brought up the possibility of contagion," moderator <a href="http://people.ign.com/ericgoldman-ign">Eric Goldman</a> said.&nbsp;"Seems like we might have a sort of trigger?"</p>
<p>"That's pure speculation," Nolan replied after a brief pause.</p>
<p>"I will say I don't think that's the last time we'll hear that phrase," Joy added.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The mystery of where this trigger phrase (if that's what it is) originated aside, we were very curious about the concept of consciousness as a virus or contagion. INSIDER spoke with&nbsp;<span>Christopher Atkeson, a professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, to learn more.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span><span>Atkeson began by reminding us that the market for simulated consciousness&nbsp;already exists. Products like Amazon Echo or iPhones have downloaded "personalities" in the form of Alexa and Siri &mdash; programs designed to speak to you as if they are a human assistant.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>So we already are beginning to experiment with crafting and spreading consciousness through smart phones and home assistants, but those products begin with a human touch.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"You could ask the question, 'Could it happen without people?'" Atkeson tells INSIDER. "So now we're in the territory of what is called&nbsp;'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm">computer worms</a>' or 'bots,'&nbsp;another term is a '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing)\">Trojan horse</a>.' The basic idea is there's a piece of software on your computer that &mdash; either because it was programmed to or because it figured it out &mdash; discovers how to communicate with another computer and so-called 'infect it' with a piece of software."</span></p>
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<p>Atkeson stressed that this is not a hypothetical situation &mdash; we're living in a world where artificial intelligence or computer programs are already capable of spreading software on their own.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The whole spam industry is, to some extent, built off this," Atkeson says.&nbsp;"[People] don't buy computers to send you spam, they infect other peoples' computers which then send you spam&nbsp;[...]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;It's not hypothetical, it's already happening. And if instead of sending spam it was sending consciousness, boom. There you go, you're spreading consciousness everywhere."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fiction enters this concept in "Westworld" when it comes to the development of consciousness in artificial intelligence. We haven't excelled in robotics the way Dr. Ford and his fictional Westworld team of programmers have, but that doesn't mean we aren't headed in that direction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"So can we have complicated programs that know and understand? Yes, we already do," Atkeson says.&nbsp;"Can we have programs that replicate themselves and travel over a network? Yes, we already do. But the only thing that's missing is we don&rsquo;t really know how to replicate consciousness. But we will, there's a huge market for it."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/57fd03d2dd0895eb338b46d4-2250/jeffrey wright as bernard lowe and anthony hopkins as dr. robert ford - ... westworld .jpg" alt="Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford ... Westworld " data-mce-source="John P. Johnson/HBO" />How robotics experts&nbsp;like Atkeson define and identify "consciousness" is a subjective discussion we'll save for another post, but we know the "Westworld" creators have spent a large amount of time dwelling on this. How do you decide whether artificial intelligence has reached a level of consciousness akin to humans? When do you decide to assign "personhood" to a robot?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We're already living in a world of artificial intelligence &mdash; it's just you're not seeing a robot, you're seeing a smartphone," Joy said in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTbFwyLuuM">an HBO clip about the realities of AI</a>.&nbsp;"You think 'Oh this is a small leap, a small advance,' but if you look at everything in aggregate, we are moving towards a place where we've uploaded our lives and our thoughts. There's a cost to that."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nolan has similar concerns about the rapid progression of AI technology. "[People have]<span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;started to think of this only as a question of science fiction, and the reality is these things are happening very quickly," he said in the same clip released by HBO. "I believe we're going to start grappling with some of these questions far earlier than we anticipated."</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fans of "Westworld" are in for more than just sex and guns &mdash; this series has clearly just begun when it comes to confronting our current understandings of AI technology and our moral obligations surrounding it. As for the mysteries embedded in the plot, we'll have to wait and see where the violent delights take us.</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/westworld-robot-contagion-technology-explained-2016-10#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/preauricular-sinus-small-hole-above-ear-2016-11">Here's why some people have a tiny hole above their ears</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/zume-pizza-robots-replacing-human-workers-2016-9Silicon Valley's robot-made-pizza startup promises to keep human employees when the robots take overhttp://www.businessinsider.com/zume-pizza-robots-replacing-human-workers-2016-9
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:00:00 -0400Melia Robinson
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<p>The kitchen at Zume Pizza looks more like a manufacturing plant than the back room of a restaurant. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/zume-robot-powered-pizza-delivery-2016-9">Robots with swinging appendages</a> dress up pizza crusts with marinara sauce made from locally grown tomatoes and toppings as the pies make their way down the conveyor belt.</p>
<p><span>"We're a </span><span>co-bot</span><span> environment," says Julia Collins, cofounder and co-CEO of <a href="https://zumepizza.com/#/menu?v=2">Zume Pizza</a>. </span></p>
<p><span>At the Mountain View, California-based delivery startup, pizza-making robots and humans work together to make better pizza faster. By automating the kitchen, the Zume team claims they can fill orders quickly and accurately, and reduce delivery times to as little as 15 minutes.</span><span> </span></p>
<p>While some humans are worried (for good reason) that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/food-robots-that-could-replace-humans-in-the-kitchen-2016-8">robots will take away food industry jobs</a>, Collins says critics can rest assured: No one who works at Zume risks being booted from work by robots.</p>
<p>"That is absolutely a promise that we make to our employees," Collins tells Business Insider.</p>
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<p>The kitchen at Zume, a delivery-only startup, is capable of churning out 288 pizzas an hour. But the bots can't do it alone — yet. <span>Collins explains that Zume prioritized automating the parts of the pizza-making process that humans are bad at, like spreading sauce evenly or taking pizza dough off a wooden pallet. The company expects to reach full automation by March 2017.</span></p>
<p><span>When that happens, Zume says the transition will free up pizza chefs to learn new skills and take on different roles in technical support, engineering, or web design.</span></p>
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<p><span>"What we want to do is actually let people have the opportunity to keep growing. I think where the fast food industry falls short is exactly that," Collins says. "It's not typical for somebody to be able to start at a fast food restaurant and get sponsorship to go to a coding academy."</span></p>
<p><span>Zume will also provide tuition subsidies for employees who want to take an English as a second language course (so they can work in hardware support) or attend graphic design school (so they can join the user-experience and user-interface web design team).</span></p>
<p><span>The company aims to serve all of the Bay Area with new kitchen hubs by 2018.</span></p>
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<p><span>Collins says Zume timed the opening of their next kitchen, in San Jose, California, to coincide with the build-out of full automation of Zume's flagship location. When the robots take over spreading sauce, for example, line cooks will be able to transfer to San Jose. </span></p>
<p>Zume currently employs about 30 people on its kitchen and delivery teams.</p>
<p>"Since the industrial revolution, the American workforce has been adapting to the advent of new technologies," Collins says. "The important thing is — for those who've chosen to be at the leading edge of automation, as we have — how can we think responsibly about our obligation to the people that come work for us?"</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/zume-robot-powered-pizza-delivery-2016-9" >This robot-made pizza in Silicon Valley should terrify Domino's and Pizza Hut</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:34:00 -0400Melia Robinson
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<p>A Silicon Valley-based startup wants to take a slice out of the nearly <a href="http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/pizza-restaurants.html">$40 billion</a> pizza industry in the most Silicon Valley-way possible &mdash; using robots to make its pies.</p>
<p><a href="https://zumepizza.com/#/menu">Zume Pizza</a>, founded in 2015, set out to make better pizza faster by streamlining the process through technology. Robots use artificial intelligence to accept orders and prepare pizzas to buyers' exact specifications.&nbsp;And if customers&nbsp;live far enough away that the pizza could get cold before it's delivered, a new high-tech delivery truck&nbsp;cooks&nbsp;the pies en route.</p>
<p>Business Insider recently toured Zume's kitchen in Mountain View, California, to see how it all comes together. Take a look.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/autonomous-delivery-robots-starship-technologies-2016-9" >San Francisco is getting tiny self-driving robots that could put delivery people out of a job</a></strong></p>
<h3>This is no ordinary pizza. It was made by robots.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>The concept of a robot-powered pizza delivery service came from friends and cofounders Julia Collins and Alex Garden, who wanted to make high-quality pizza more affordable.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>Collins graduated from Stanford Business School, worked as an analyst under Shake Shack mogul Danny Meyer, and helped launch New York City restaurant chain Mexicue. She knew pumping pies full of chemical adulterants wasn't the answer — tech was.</h3>
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Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:10:10 -0400Ben Gilbert
<p>When you think of self-driving cars, you probably think of Tesla, Google, or perhaps Uber.</p>
<p>From now on, think Domino's Pizza.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/57e9200cb0ef9737018b821c-2048/drue_3.jpg" alt="Domino's Pizza robot" data-mce-source="Domino's Pizza"></p>
<p>This is DRU: the "Domino's Robotic Unit." DRU is a self-driving vehicle that has one mission: delivering the freshest possible pizza to your anxiously awaiting gullet.</p>
<p>It's not in the US just yet, but it is already on the road in New Zealand.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/57e9217eb0ef975f148b7f95-1440/screen%20shot%202016-09-26%20at%209.01.49%20am.png" alt="Domino's Pizza robot" data-mce-source="Domino's Pizza"></p>
<p>Wanna know more about Domino's pizza robot? Of course you do.</p><h3>According to Domino's Pizza, DRU is the "world's first autonomous pizza delivery vehicle."</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>It's essentially a low-powered oven/refrigerator on wheels.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>But the fact that it can refrigerate cold food, and keep hot food hot, is much less impressive than the self-driving tech in its brain.</h3>
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<p><p>The self-driving tech and the vehicle itself are a collaboration between Domino's Pizza and Sydney-based Marathon Targets, a robotics company. The DRU is three-feet tall and can hold an impressive 10 pizzas in its ovular thorax.</p></p>
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